Strasburg man gets year in jail for attempted arson

WOODSTOCK – A Strasburg man will serve a year in jail after pleading guilty to two attempted arson-related counts Monday in Shenandoah County Circuit Court.

The pleas by Boyd Allen Hockman, 61, of 720 Clary Road, stemmed from a case in which he attempted to set fire to a house occupied by a man, a woman and the woman’s 8-year-old son on Dec. 6 at 775 Cedar Creek Road in Star Tannery. Four other charges were dropped by the prosecution in earlier proceedings.

Hockman received a total of eight years in prison, seven of them suspended. He was also sentenced to five years of probation, three of them supervised and two of them unsupervised.